My Optimized Immortal Life

He casually released a small fireball, burning Zhong Ning's body into ashes. Then Chen Qing walked out of the darkness and picked up the storage bag on the ground. Chen Qing shook his head secretly.

This is the fate of a casual cultivator. One day he might encounter all kinds of disasters and end up dead. If he wants to change all this, he must make himself strong enough.

Chen Qing could have not killed Zhong Ning, but unfortunately, he knelt too quickly. This kind of person, although seemingly honest, is actually the most resentful. The best strategy is to kill him directly.

Chen Qing turned his head to look at the cave entrance and slowly walked over.

This black stone vein is indeed large enough, reaching the standard of a medium-sized vein.

Walking to the entrance of the vein, Chen Qing reached out and touched it. The black stone was cold and rough to the touch, but its texture and hardness far exceeded those of ordinary rocks. It was an important raw material for making low-level magical tools.

Chen Qing pondered.

According to the art of qigong, the Black Nether Stone can resist the soul-sucking power of the Earthly Evil, but it needs to be in large enough quantities to have this effect. Chen Qing's plan is to use the Black Nether Stone to build a cave under the Sky Valley, so he must collect a sufficient number of Black Nether Stones.

A medium-sized black stone vein is definitely enough, or even more, but the storage bag on Chen Qing's body is not enough for him to hold an entire vein.

Therefore, he could only divide the vein into several parts, refine them one by one, and finally form a cave.

This is a huge project and can only be implemented after he has established his foundation.

Walking along the tunnel dug by Zhong Ning to the deepest part of the mine, Chen Qing saw more than a dozen pieces of black jade as big as a human head, which surprised him.

The core of this black stone vein can actually produce such a large amount of black jade essence. It seems that the grade of this vein is far higher than that of ordinary black stone veins.

Chen Qing couldn't help but show a look of joy. The Black Nether Stone was the main material he used to refine the cave, so the higher its quality, the better.

After putting the dozen or so pieces of black jade essence into the storage bag, Chen Qing turned around and left.

After walking out of the formation and coming to the outside world, Chen Qing thought for a moment, then waved his hand to take back all the formation flags and formation plates that were placed here.

Then he cast a fireball spell to collapse the crack in the ground, and then nodded with satisfaction.

Leaving the formation behind will only arouse the suspicion of some passing monks, while trampling the crack in the ground can prevent wild beasts and mortals from entering. In this way, this Black Nether Stone vein can be kept from being discovered by others to the greatest extent.

Chen Qing checked again and confirmed that he could no longer enter through ordinary means. Then he turned around, boarded the flying boat and left.

On the way back, Chen Qing took out Zhong Ning's storage bag, erased the magic mark on it, and probed his spiritual consciousness into it to check it out.

Zhong Ning was quite wealthy. He had a lot of elixirs for cultivation and two or three high-grade magic weapons. However, what made Chen Qing most happy was that he also had a technique that could be used to cultivate to the Jindan stage.

Extremely cold and heavy water power.

However, this is a water-based technique, which conflicts with the fire-based technique that Chen Qing is practicing, so it can only be used as a supplement during optimization.

But Chen Qing was still happy about it. After all, the techniques that could be cultivated to the Jindan stage were all mastered by those Jindan forces. Most of the ones circulating among the casual cultivators were incomplete, and there were almost no complete ones. This also led to the fact that it was difficult for casual cultivators to reach the Jindan stage, unless they were people with great luck like Linghua Zhenren on Qiubo Lake, who could luckily discover a heritage cave and obtain the techniques.

Although Chen Qing is still in the Qi Refining Stage, he has already begun to consider how to plan his cultivation techniques after building his foundation and even forming a pill.

With such a treasure as the innate ability in hand, Chen Qing will definitely take the path of creating his own skills. Therefore, he will need to obtain a large number of skills as a supplement for optimization, which will allow him to go further on the path to immortality.

However, I still have to advance to the foundation-building stage before I can start the next plan.

After returning to Hualian Valley, Chen Qing stayed in the small attic for a few more days, asked Xu Lingxin to take care of him and the attic in the future, and then left Hualian Valley.

Wanren Mountain.

This place is a huge mountain range that stretches for dozens of miles, behind which is the Great Wilderness Swamp, the habitat of many monsters and beasts.

Because the two places are connected, monsters and beasts often appear in Wanren Mountain. There have even been several beast tides that devoured all the nearby mortal villages.

Therefore, the major sects built a city here to attract independent cultivators to come here to kill monsters and exchange them for cultivation resources.

Today, Wanren City has become one of the largest independent cultivation markets in the entire Song State.

Chen Qing drove the flying boat to the foot of the mountain and saw a city rising from the ground, stretching for hundreds of meters, blocking the entire Wanren Mountain in front of him. It was extremely majestic.

The city walls are more than ten feet high and are covered with countless silver array patterns, making them a powerful weapon for resisting the beast tide.

Just like before, Chen Qing first found a place to get off the flying boat, and then prepared to walk into the city.

After paying a spirit stone as an entrance fee, Chen Qing officially set foot on the ground of Wanren City. He looked around and saw that all the people he saw on the road were cultivators with high cultivation levels. He didn't see a single mortal.

In fact, this is very normal. Wanren City is the first line of defense against the beast tide. If mortals meet monsters, they will either die or be injured. Even if they live in the city, there is no guarantee that the city walls will not be breached. Therefore, there are basically no mortals in the entire Wanren City.

After asking the young Qi Refining cultivators who were leading the way, Chen Qing randomly found a shop and prepared to see how much the second-level demon pills and demon-transforming grass were worth.

As I walked in, a graceful female cultivator immediately came up to me and spoke.

"Fellow Daoist, what would you like to buy?"

The female cultivator's voice was extremely gentle, which made people feel pity. Even Chen Qing couldn't help but look at her a few more times.

This girl had a pair of slightly opened phoenix eyes, a delicate nose, and a slightly red mouth. In terms of appearance alone, she was not inferior to Xu Lingxin.

Unfortunately, Xu Lingxin's temperament has changed drastically in recent years. Combined with her appearance, Chen Qing's vision has also been raised a lot unconsciously. Therefore, Chen Qing just looked at her a few more times and then looked away.

"Fellow Daoist, I'm new here and would like to purchase a hundred-year-old demon-transforming grass. I wonder if our store has any in stock?"

"Hundred-year-old demon-transforming grass?"

Zheng Shuangshuang was stunned for a moment, then spoke.

"Although the Demon-Transforming Grass is a low-level spiritual herb, its ability to dissolve demonic energy is a powerful weapon for cultivators in battling demonic beasts. Therefore, most Demon-Transforming Grass is only 10 to 20 years old..."

Speaking of this, Zheng Shuangshuang suddenly said.

"But fellow Daoist, you can wait a few days. The gathering cultivators in our shop are about to go into the mountains to collect demon-transforming grass. The entire Wanren Mountain covers an area of ​​hundreds of miles. I believe there is no shortage of hundred-year-old demon-transforming grass there."

Chen Qing nodded after hearing this.

"Then I'd like to trouble you, fellow Daoist, to help Jiang keep a closer eye on this matter."

Zheng Shuangshuang nodded, but saw Chen Qing speak again.

"Jiang would also like to ask, does our store have any second-level demon pills?"

"Second-level demon elixir? Fellow Daoist, this is putting me in a difficult position. I am only at the sixth level of Qi Refining, and the staff in the store are also at the Qi Refining stage. How can I collect the inner elixir of a second-level demon beast?"

"I'm not very considerate. Here's a list of herbs. I wonder if you could help me check them out."

Chen Qing then took out a jade slip from his storage bag and handed it to Zheng Shuangshuang.

Zheng Shuangshuang took it and looked at it, her eyes suddenly widened.

"Three kilograms of Purple Sun Grass, two kilograms of Ghost Fruit, and ten stalks of Orange Flower... Fellow Daoist, are you sure you want to follow the quantities on this list?"

"of course."

Chen Qing casually took out a bag full of spirit stones from his storage bag and placed it on the counter beside him.

Seeing this, Zheng Shuangshuang immediately called the store clerk and started to organize the spiritual materials for Chen Qing.

This is a big business!

Zheng Shuangshuang was very excited at this time. She had run this shop for more than ten years, but this was the first time she met someone like Chen Qing, who could get a large amount of spiritual materials at a click.

Could this person be an alchemist?